The Mountain Squatter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFG ABAB HEHE IJIJ JBJB KLKL MJMJ NONO PLPL QJQJ RBRB SPSP TBTB UJVJ WXWX TYTY ZBZB A2SA2JHere in my mountain home | A |
On rugged hills and steep | B |
I sit and watch you come | C |
O Riverinia Sheep | B |
You come from the fertile plains | D |
Where saltbush sometimes grows | E |
And flats that when it rains | D |
Will blossom like the rose | E |
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But when the summer sun | F |
Gleams down like burnished brass | G |
You have to leave your run | F |
And hustle off for grass | G |
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'Tis then that forced to roam | A |
You come to where I keep | B |
Here in my mountain home | A |
A boarding house for sheep | B |
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Around me where I sit | H |
The wary wombat goes | E |
A beast of little wit | H |
But what he knows he knows | E |
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The very same remark | I |
Applies to me also | J |
I don't give out a spark | I |
But what I know I know | J |
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My brain perhaps would show | J |
No convolutions deep | B |
But anyhow I know | J |
The way to handle sheep | B |
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These Riverina cracks | K |
They do not care to ride | L |
The half inch hanging tracks | K |
Along the mountain side | L |
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Their horses shake with fear | M |
When loosened boulders go | J |
With leaps like startled deer | M |
Down to the gulfs below | J |
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Their very dogs will shirk | N |
And drop their tails in fright | O |
When asked to go and work | N |
A mob that's out of sight | O |
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My little collie pup | P |
Works silently and wide | L |
You'll see her climbing up | P |
Along the mountain side | L |
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As silent as a fox | Q |
You'll see her come and go | J |
A shadow through the rocks | Q |
Where ash and messmate grow | J |
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Then lost to sight and sound | R |
Behind some rugged steep | B |
She works her way around | R |
And gathers up the sheep | B |
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And working wide and shy | S |
She holds them rounded up | P |
The cash ain't coined to buy | S |
That little collie pup | P |
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And so I draw a screw | T |
For self and dog and keep | B |
To boundary ride for you | T |
O Riverina Sheep | B |
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And when the autumn rain | U |
Has made the herbage grow | J |
You travel off again | V |
And glad no doubt to go | J |
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But some are left behind | W |
Around the mountain's spread | X |
For those we cannot find | W |
We put them down as dead | X |
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So when we say adieu | T |
And close the boarding job | Y |
I always find a few | T |
Fresh ear marks in my mob | Y |
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And what with those I sell | Z |
And what with those I keep | B |
You pay me pretty well | Z |
O Riverina Sheep | B |
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It's up to me to shout | A2 |
Before we say good bye | S |
Here's to a howlin' drought | A2 |
All west of Gundagai | J |
Banjo Paterson
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